FOLLOWING the tragic and brutal death of Labour MP Jo Cox last month, all but one of Britain’s political parties announced they would not contest the subsequent by-election as a mark of respect to the late wife and mother-of-two.

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“What people fail to realise, however, is that in a General Election, a constituency chooses a candidate, and not just a party.

“When Jo Cox was tragically killed, the seat became vacant.

“It is not right or democratic under our system that a party is given free rein to appoint anybody they like. Jo Cox was elected, not the Labour Party.”

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Jack Buckby will contest the Batley and Spen seat for Liberty GB

He added the constituents of Batley and Spen deserved an option other than Labour.

Mr Bucky said he thought "changing communities, multiculturalism and the problem of Islamic rape gangs" were issues affecting West Yorkshire.

He revealed his controversial by-election manifesto involves closing the UK’s borders for five years and kicking out “foreign benefit scroungers and extremists.”

Mr Buckby’s decision to go against all other parties refusal to contest the Batley and Spen by-election has been sharply criticised.

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Buckby speaking at a conference with former BNP leader Nick Griffin

In the aftermath Harry Anderson, President of Liverpool Guild of Students, hit out at the Liberty GB candidate.

Alongside a link of Mr Bucky's tweet announcing he was standing, Mr Anderson said: "I studied politics with this guy.

"He was an offensive, intolerant & vile bigot then, but this tops it off."

Mr Bucky, a former University of Liverpool student, founded the National Culturalists society, a group which opposes multi-culturalism and promotes the preservation of native cultures by preventing external influences.